Are the wicked witches sisters?
It depends on what version of the story you’re enjoying. While many people seem to think so, no relationship between them is ever given in the book. The first mention of their being sisters probably comes from The Movie, and it’s a kinship that many people have used ever since, including in The Wiz (in the play script, all four witches, good and bad, are described as sisters, but this may be the African-American use of the word to mean fellow African-American women) and Wicked. In The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz, all four witches are sisters — but as they’re all played by Miss Piggy, it was easy to pull off. Two examples that further add to this: In the animated movie Journey Back to Oz, Mombi the Witch is the cousin of both witches. And in the book The Wicked Witch of Oz, written by Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Singra, the titular character, is also the cousin of both witches. But neither of these stories, written after the idea was first raised that the wicked witches are sisters, are seen as of
